Motivational Quotes

Failure

It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

- Tracy, Brian

Best Quotes about Failure

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

Engstrom, Ted W.

Many men fail because they quit too soon. They lose faith when the signs are against them. They do not have the courage to hold on, to keep fighting in spite of that which seems insurmountable. If more of us would strike out and attempt the impossible, we very soon would find the truth of that old saying that nothing is impossible... abolish fear and you can accomplish anything you wish.

Welch, Dr. C. E.

No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back.

Proverb, Turkish

Losing is a part of winning.

Munro, Dick

We often say that the biggest job we have is to teach a newly hired employee to fail intelligently... to experiment over and over again and to keep on trying and failing until he learns what will work.

Kettering, Charles F.

The moment avoiding failure becomes your motivation, you're down the path of inactivity. You stumble only if you're moving.

Goizueta, Roberto

All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times,and what happens when he says, I am a failure.

Hayakawa, S. I.

It is for want of application, rather than of means that people fail,

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.

Keats, John

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The greatest failure is a person who never admits that he can be a failure.

Weiskott, Gerald. N.

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Most people fail in life because they major in minor things.

Robbins, Anthony

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I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying.

Hopkins, Tom

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Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Vauvenargues, Marquis De

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You must think of failure and defeat as the springboards to new achievements or to the next level of accomplishment.

Brown, Les

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A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.

Confucius

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Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Wooden, John

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No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Bose, Amar Gopal

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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.

Quentin Crisp

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Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

Boulding, Kenneth Ewart

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Failure is an event, never a person.

Brown, William D.

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There is no such thing as accidental failure. All failure is at least half imposed.

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If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

Robbins, Anthony

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Gore Vidal

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You win only if you aren't afraid to lose.

Aoki, Rocky

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Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

Proverb, African

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If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded. You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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I never see failure as failure, but only as the game I must play and win.

Hopkins, Tom

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The only people who never fail are those who never try.

Chase, Ilka

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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Skinner, B(urrhus) F(rederic)

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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Eliot, George

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Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.

Winfrey, Oprah

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We are all failures -- at least, all the best of us are.

Barrie, Sir James M.

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I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Sophocles

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Failure is simply a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.

Rohn, Jim

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I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Edison, Thomas A.

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You can give in to the failure messages and be a bitter deadbeat of excuses. Or you can choose to be happy and positive and excited about life.

Williams, A.L.

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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure all your life.

Gardner, John W.

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The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.

Picabia, Francis

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Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Carl Jung

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Past failures are guideposts to success.

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There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Hoffer, Eric